I grabbed it and held it as tight as possible without killing it. Then I grabbed one of the few green leafes of the plant and held them both in one hand. "According do the books I don't need to brew potions but just infuse them witch magic."
So I imagined the feeling of cold water streaming to my hand and also the image of a potion. Because I didn't know how to imagine the effect of a potion I just imagined that on the glass there was the word fertilizer scratched into the glass of the potion.
And tada! It really worked. I now held a small glass with green liquid in my hand. The bootle had a blck lid with the image of a leaf on it. On the glass there was the word fertilizer scratched in.
"The last thing there is to do is testing it" I said. I went to the almost dead plant and poured a few drops of my potion on it. The moment of truth.
Nothing happened. "What went wrong" I asked myself and went back to my desk to rewrite my list as suddenly I heard something behind me. As I saw what it was I gasped. The almost dead plant grew into an three meter tall redish glowing beautiful but deadly looking plant. All this in just the 3 3 seconds I didn't watch it.
"That's crazy. Is it really that easy?" I said. "I'm glad I didn't use the whole potion. Maybe the house woukd have been halve plant after that. And as a good scientist I wrote down everything that happened.
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I endet up trying to make another potion and kind o f got obsessed with doing that so I endet up making 4 more. One more fertilizer, one (just for sience) that changes you voice temporarily (like helium) one against colds and another general purpose healing potion.
I also found out two different things. I can drink my own potions but they have no effect on me. I only just know randomly what this potion would do if I were a human. And I can freely decide how effective my potions are and I am able to somehow gife them a fake effect. I really don't know what that means but I guess if someone were to try finding the effect of the potion he only would see the fake one. But that's just a guess.
I looked at all my notes. In the end the whole table was covered in in my dokuments and results. Also after creating the potions I was able to controll magic more freely. Somehow like it became part of my body.
I opened my hand and just let the flow of cold water out. A blue flame appeared in my hand. I just forced out as much as I could. It somehow felt like something inside of me was slowly getting out until.
"Ahh damnit" I screamed. My head started to hurt like it explodet from the inside I supported my body with my hands and st down on the chair besides my table. The headace got worse and worse until the only thing I saw was black.
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I only saw a black void. But slowly something entered my mind. Before my eyes images appeared. Images of potions and magic and after some time also images of..... humans? I saw how they were dragging people out of their homes. tying them to wooden piles and burning them. Innocent people. I also saw other races killing people.
I didn't know why I had to see all this but inside of me something built up. A hatred for everyone and everything. I started to develop a feeling like the whole world hated me, wanted to burn and kill me. And also that humans, elves bestmen and everything others life just wrer worthles things I could use to maka a potion.
I think during that time the "Witch's mind" the mirror mentioned was taking over. I felt like I could kill a human without even flinching and that my only ally was me. And also my magic finally became part of me. i didn't want to know how it worked anymore. I just wanted to live.